Psychopathology & Health
This mood disorder characterized by negative mood that persists for more than two weeks and anhedonia is a major predictor of cardiovascular disease.
What is depression?
This form of psychotherapy is considered the first line psychosocial treatment for those with chronic pain.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
Norepinephrine, epinephrine, and dopamine are the central catecholamines produced when this branch of the autonomic nervous system is activated.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
Stress promotes what process associated with the formation of new blood vessels, which can promote cancer spread.
What is angiogensis?
The key health outcome in job demands-resources theory.
What is burnout?
This disorder is characterized by excessively working about becoming seriously ill.
What is illness related anxiety?
A set of maladaptive cognitions that is characterized by focusing on negative thoughts and feelings about a symptom.
What is catastrophizing?
Vagally mediated heart rate variability indexes activation of this branch of the autonomic nervous system.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
This branch of the autonomic nervous system typically dampens during a fight-or-flight response.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
___ should be embarked on prior to beginning an intervention according to recommendations by Lee et al. (2019)
What is systematic needs analysis?
This disorder, characterized by manic and depressed episodes is associate with premature mortality.
What is bipolar disorder?
According to this interpersonal model, individuals turn to their spouses in an effort to regulate the negative emotions that are evoked by their catastrophizing thoughts.
What is the interpersonal emotion regulation model?
This hormone, which is produced in response to stress, is anti-inflammatory; however, when chronically secreted for extended periods, humans exhibit elevated systemic inflammation.
What is cortisol?
In addition to cholesterol levels, recent work suggests elevations that these signaling molecules that are secreted from immune cells contribute to cardiovascular disease.
What is cytokines?
Bartlett et al. (2019) thinks that mindfulness should be incorporated into the job demands-resources theory this way.
What is considered a job resource?
This medication, used to treat major depression, lowers vagally mediated heart rate variability.
What are SSRIs (antidepressant class)?
When couples jointly engage in ruminative cognitions.
What is co-rumination?
These signaling molecules, which are secreted by immune cells, typically increase in response to acute stress.
What are proinflammatory cytokines?
This acute-phase protein is elevated in response to the production of proinflammatory cytokines increases in proinflammatory cytokines, and is used by medical professional to evaluate circulating concentrations of inflammation.
What are C-reactive proteins (CRP)?
Total worker health programs integrates occupational safety with this.
What is health promotion (i.e. wellness) interventions and/or education?
People with this disorder have 3 times as many outpatient clinic visits per year and 2 times as many hospital visits per year compared with the rest of the population.
What is bipolar disorder?
A procedure that combines muscle relaxation with continuous recording and presentation
of information about muscle activity.
What is biofeedback?
This cytokine is most responsive to acute stress in humans.
What is IL-6?
Modifications to DNA that persist across the life span and potentially into future generations.
What are epigentic changes?
Self-determination theory in Pedersen et al. (2019) is applied in this way.
What are peer clusters? (What is SDT model of health behavior change posits that support from health care practitioners will move patients toward a stronger sense of competence and autonomous motivation for the health behavior in question.”)